| If you're printer uses the hp 88 cartridge series | | | | If you are looking for a CISS for your printer, it is |
| and you're considering the purchase of a | | | | perfectly fine to buy one that is Chinese made. |
| continuous ink supply system for your printer, | | | | However, buy it empty and CHOOSE the inks |
| you should carefully consider your purchase. | | | | that you use in your printer. Especially if your |
| The first and foremost reason that I will cover in | | | | printer uses the hp 88 cartridge series. An hp 88 |
| this article is ink quality. The hp 88 black ink | | | | printhead right now is selling for over 50 dollars |
| cartridge, requires the use of a high density | | | | from the manufacturer. Your Officejet printer has |
| pigment black ink. | | | | TWO of these printheads. Not something that |
| 99.999999999999% of CISS or Continuous Ink | | | | you'll want to gamble. |
| Supply Systems for printers that use the hp 88 | | | | Quality aftermarket inks are always going to be |
| cartridge DO NOT contain the proper black ink | | | | made in the United States and are only available |
| and the color inks are generally always poor | | | | from U.S. distributors. Ink cartridges from abroad |
| quality generic inks that are certainly not | | | | that are advertised as having American made inks |
| formulated for use in hp 88 printheads. | | | | are very misleading as the inks are only bottom |
| I speak from having extensive knowledge of this | | | | of the barrel generics produced specifically for |
| industry. | | | | foreign markets that buy based on price. |
| Continuous Ink Supply Systems are almost | | | | I've been around the aftermarket ink industry for |
| always manufactured in China. Now, there is | | | | several, several years. I recommend that if a |
| nothing wrong with products made in China as a | | | | Continuous Ink Supply System is what you crave, |
| whole, however there is a real problem when | | | | buy one. Just use quality American made inks that |
| products are imported and advertised as being | | | | are made specifically for the Hp 88 ink cartridge |
| compatible for particular products when they | | | | series, only. |
| certainly are not. | | | | |